Pierre Trémaux (1818-1895) was a French architect, photographer, traveler and writer of scientific and ethnographic texts. Beginning in 1847 he recorded his expeditions to Asia Minor, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia first in sketches and daguerreotypes and then in calotypes for greater veracity, all of which were also reproduced as lithographs in his publications

The volume depicting the landscapes, architecture and people of North Africa, contains 57 plates of illustrations (49 lithographs and eight calotypes) and four maps made during Trémaux's second expedition

Issued in parts

To accompany the author's Voyage en Éthiopie, au Soudan oriental et dans la Nigritie. Paris : L. Hachette, 1862-[1863]

Title from title page

Title on spine: P. Trémaux / Voyages au Soundan oriental

Plates 36, 38, 44, 46, 47, 50, 52 and 55 are calotypes and depict both portraits and landscapes

The illustrations are numbered 1 through 56; number 55 is present both as a calotype and as a lithograph. A man leading a donkey laden with firewood has been added to the foreground of the lithograph

Lithographers include: Laurens; Tirpenne; Didiere; V. Adam; A. Adam; Pinque; Decon; Gaildrau and E. David

Printers of plates include Godard and Lemercier

Half calf binding with gilt tooled spine and marbled paper covers

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